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Ok, I have a question that may fit in this challenge subject area - it may be more of a movie!canon v. book!canon question, although fanon of course messes with both.
In the books, do we ever see Snape inflicting casual physical violence on a student? There is the verbal cutting, of course, but does he ever touch his students at all, let alone to smack them around? (I am excepting the situation with the Occlumency lessons, here, as that was a special case and there's only the one time, I think, that Snape actually manhandles Harry in the books with that, anyway, and it's when he literally jerks Harry out of the pensieve and throws him out of the office.)
I was actually a bit disturbed to see the way Snape's character was encapsulated in the movies through physical violence toward Harry and Ron. It may be because I just genuinely don't remember anything like it from the books, so if anybody has any references please feel free to point them out.
I find the idea of Snape expressing any of his temper as physical violence in the classroom/with his students kind of disturbing, but again I haven't read all the books in a while so perhaps that is book canon re-interpreted for the movies, which then of course feeds into the fanfiction.
This is not to say he isn't vindictive and kind of scary when his temper goes to full boil, but still it seems to me that book!Snape would scream and stomp up a storm, and cut people to ribbons with his words, and maybe hurt through deliberate negligence, but he never hit any students, even when they attacked him. Am I just totally remembering everything wrong?
In the books, do we ever see Snape inflicting casual physical violence on a student? There is the verbal cutting, of course, but does he ever touch his students at all, let alone to smack them around? (I am excepting the situation with the Occlumency lessons, here, as that was a special case and there's only the one time, I think, that Snape actually manhandles Harry in the books with that, anyway, and it's when he literally jerks Harry out of the pensieve and throws him out of the office.)
I was actually a bit disturbed to see the way Snape's character was encapsulated in the movies through physical violence toward Harry and Ron. It may be because I just genuinely don't remember anything like it from the books, so if anybody has any references please feel free to point them out.
I find the idea of Snape expressing any of his temper as physical violence in the classroom/with his students kind of disturbing, but again I haven't read all the books in a while so perhaps that is book canon re-interpreted for the movies, which then of course feeds into the fanfiction.
This is not to say he isn't vindictive and kind of scary when his temper goes to full boil, but still it seems to me that book!Snape would scream and stomp up a storm, and cut people to ribbons with his words, and maybe hurt through deliberate negligence, but he never hit any students, even when they attacked him. Am I just totally remembering everything wrong?